[Multi-Tab] Ability to open multiple documents as tabs
Ability to use multiple documents side by side as tabs (similar to ios version)
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[Open multiple documents in tabs is live on Android and Windows 🎉]
Hello,
Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions and voting for that idea! We’re excited to share that opening multiple documents in tabs is now live on Android tablets and the Windows app.
You can now switch seamlessly between multiple documents using tabs—without losing your place.
Any new document you open will appear as a tab, while your previously opened documents stay open in the background at the exact location where you left off, making it easy to jump right back in.
Currently, this feature is available for an unlimited number of Notebooks and Whiteboards. For Text Documents, it’s limited to one active document for now—but this will be resolved soon.
How to enable Tabs
- Go to the Library
- Tap Settings (top-right corner)
- Go to Settings, then Preferences
- Open Document Settings
- Enable Open documents as Tabs
Feel free to share your feedback and let us know how the feature works for you!
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Goodnotes Team
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Stephanie Elston commented
Another approach to implementing this on Samsung devices would be to let us run the same app twice in multi view. I would like to be able to read my textbook and take notes while reading it. Whichever way you implement this, please make it soon. I'm struggling since all my textbooks are digital - as are my notes. Thanks!
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Amr Nadi commented
Hello goodnotes
We want to add more than one tab and move between them
We want to export a single page, not the entire file -
Ira Shynne L. Calahat commented
I cant open multiple tabs in android version
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Vadim Olshevsky commented
Any updates on when this feature will be implemented? I was using GoogNotes for quite some time, and I enjoyed this feature on my iPad. Just subscribed to the windows version and was disappointed. This feature is not there, while it is necessary in my work.
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Carmen Vila commented
On IOS in goodnotes you can have different tabs open that are from goodnotes. I would love to be able to do that
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Ankit Sharma commented
Why this features not in android . is there any discrimination between user of android and ios
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Liz Gonzalez commented
i would love to be able to have multiple notebooks open at the same time, as a student who would use this app both to take notes and to do homework on the same notebook, it would be a hassle to do a problem and scroll up to my notes every single time instead of being able to have it side by side, similar to the ios version
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Julian Z commented
A function to have multiple tabs open like on the ipad version would be great. Especially for students.
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Maria Tapia commented
Ha pasado un año y algo, pero aún nada.
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Nora commented
I really need this!
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Kletha
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It has been almost one year since this was suggested, is there any information on the progress of this feature?
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Daniel pahlavan commented
Hi, I believe that a few factors need to be taken into consideration.
1. several tabs: similar to the original version, having several tabs.
2. Save the page location: avoid showing the page location from the first page again once we exit the document.
3. Multitab interaction: Texts and graphics can be moved between two tabs.
4. Drag and drop is operational across tabs. -
Cristina MartĂnez de SeptiĂ©n commented
Me gustaria poder abrir varios archivos a la vez, sin necesidad de tener que salirme del que estoy editando, de manera que pueda tener varias pestañas abiertas
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Sahar Zarei commented
Can you please add a new version that has the ability to add more tabs. while working on on pdf, you have the ability to work on the other notes simultaneously like ipad version also please add the search bar, as an example when you search a word it shows you the page number and the pdfs that has this specific word again like ios version
I was reading the feedbacks and i notice that you have replied that your working on some special features but about 2 days ago which is october 20th of 2023 you had an update which didnt have any of the things that people ask you to add although from a year ago you said you were working on it , please consider android users as well i had good notes on my ipad which was the best app for note taking on ipad , i really enjoyed studying with it since everything was easy, but as i had switched to samsung tablet im facing a lot of problems with notes while im studying . i hope a new update will come soon amd these factors will be considered
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Sahar Zarei commented
It has been almost a year but this Feature still hasn't came , also the android version is slow and keeps lagging please do something about it
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Alice Benatti commented
i can do it
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Clare Chalk commented
The ability to have 2 Goodnote windows open at the same time in Android version is a must for digital planning, enabling being able to have a planner open and another for sticker storage/use via drag & drop, just as IOS has the ability
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경동 commented
This is the most urgent feature for Goodnotes for android...
I was so looking forward to use this feature on the beta versions but it doesnt seems to be included even on the official release...
If there is no tab feature on official, then it is nothing different from the Samsung notes.. -
Alexander Karamitev commented
please consider adding the tab bar feature from ios where you can easily press a tab and it just jumps to the page
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Miriam Rieger commented
it is necessary to open multiple windows with this app and to be able to open even the same page twice. For notes in university, it is also great to have those windows one over another. This way we don't have to keep sliding the page back and forth to shout on the page in a suitable font size. Furthermore, the pen options should be approved for a better access to multiple colors and pens.